id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285226-4ydvjmr3 Sekhar, Laligam N. The Future of Skull Base Surgery: A View Through Tinted Glasses 2020-06-27 .txt text/plain 3704 224 51 This leads to an examination of recent developments in the field and outlines several promising areas of future improvement in skull base surgery, per se, as well as identifying new hospital support systems needed to accommodate these changes. These include, but are not limited to advances in imaging, Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy, 3-dimensional printing and rapid prototyping, master-slave and semi-autonomous robots, artificial intelligence applications in all areas of medicine, tele-medicine, and green technologies in hospitals. 44 45 More recent technological introductions have proceeded to revolutionize the 46 treatment of challenging skull base pathology including the introduction of 47 endoscopic surgery, advances in neuroimaging, radiosurgery and high energy 48 focused radiotherapy, the perfection of vascular bypasses for replacement of 49 major arteries and venous sinuses involved by tumors 1,2,3 , and the use of skull 50 base approaches to treat complex vascular lesions. Humanoid robotic nursing assistants 558 will be developed and widely used in future due to health care worker shortages, 559 patients' desire to have 24x7 nursing assistance, and the needs created by 560 infectious diseases wherein human-human contact must be minimized. ./cache/cord-285226-4ydvjmr3.txt ./txt/cord-285226-4ydvjmr3.txt